Diego Polo the Younger (1620–1655) was a Spanish painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period. He was the nephew of the elder Diego Polo. He was born in

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. He was a scholar of Antonio Lanchares. He painted several pictures for the churches at

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, among them, the ''Baptism of Christ'' for the church of the Carmelites and an ''Annunciation'' for the church of Santa Maria. He also excelled in portraiture.

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* 1620 births 1655 deaths People from the Province of Burgos 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters {{Spain-painter-stub